Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov and his aides, Comrade Stalin walked into the conference room, put his arm around the visitor's shoulder, smiled benignly, said: "Never mind, I'll protect you from these great Russians." > At a similar conference with another Baltic official Dictator Stalin varied his remark: "You know, these militarists want everything, but I am a politician and I can compromise." Result: The Russian demands were pared down. > When one Baltic Minister brought up the question of what was now to become of Communists whom Baltic States had jailed, Bolshevist No. i answered: "What...
...other, wrote passionate letters back & forth long after they had ceased to live together as man & wife. At last, ill, frenzied, half-insane, Edith demanded a separation, accused him of trying to put her in an asylum. When she died (in 1916 of pneumonia) Havelock recalled with anguish a remark of Queen Victoria's after her husband's death: "Nobody contradicts me now, and the salt has gone out of my life...
...Yard and the pigeons were equally unexciting the other morning, Vag felt unpleasantly nomadic; therefore he climbed the steps of Appleton, leaned his head against one of the massive pillars, and fell into deep thought. Somehow Vag began to think about Shakespeare. Probably this was because of a remark made by one of his instructors which seemed to stick in his mind. The instructor had said with great fervor and obvious fondness for the great poet that Shakespeare is as much alive today as he was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Exciting--Vag thought--if the immortal bard were...
...only two solutions: The use of force, or the achievement of his aims by the display of force. 'If you wish to obtain your objective by force, you must be strong; if you wish to obtain them by negotiation, you must be stronger still.' That was a remark which he made to a foreign statesman who visited him this year, and it expresses in the concisest possible form the Hitler technique...
...Crimson gridder was heard to remark yesterday, "Anyway, it'll be an interesting game." The restraining hand of Dick Harlow on his quarterback will be lifted today, and the orders are: Shoot the works. Against Bates and Chicago, passes and trick plays were held in reserve. Today the Crimson will have to dig deep into its bag of tricks and hope that enough of those puzzlers succeed...